Show WEATHER HEATHER PROPHET MAKES Cites Precedent for the Cur Cull rent rait el t Atmospheric Proclivities Proclivities Pro Pro- Although the present spring is backward backward backward back back- ward ward yet cl It It Is not a record breaker In that that line line according to J J. C Cecil Alter meteorologist at tho United States weather cather bur bureau aU who ho calls attention who object to the kind of oC or of nit ail t oso out has been weather ather he w In InSe the Ithe following statement Issued yos- yos ps tC te tertia weeks The Is about two Tho The season 11 being belna a season eason when live livestock o late late- and and tock stock feed teed in IK I extremely s short hort short winter which begs began tt unusually unusually un- un added to a ve very lery ry usually early carly it seems seams to r be 00 a However much more retarded rel seasons have been number of oC spring colder and later than the present onto one temperature doff doff- 1 The accumulated o from March arch 1 to date amounts to 10 this Beat seaf season to on but t In n a IS 3 degrees for the same Pe period P It was Pethe and in 1917 1911 the tho In 1897 1597 degrees coldest spring of record It was as 6 degrees for tor direct comparison Jn In abnormally abnor abnor- or- or 1893 both Ma May and June Juno were ex extremely ex- ex x- x cold making the season mally malty tr mel y backward as a n whole On n theother the tho other hand May In 1897 1891 was a er very warm month and rapid growth of oC all vegetation resulted The worst season of or record was as 1917 when hen MD May and the first hat halt of oC June averaged nearly 5 G degrees degree below normal after arter the extremely cold April hat t March though precipitation t that and year was not much above normal Tile spring spring- of ot 1910 was the most precocious of oC the tho last thirty-one thirty years for tor which are arc available with daily temperature an accumulated excess of oC temperature from March 1 to April 22 of or de decrees degrees derees de- de rees crees the corresponding period In 1916 1915 was ahead of ot normal degrees andIn andin and andIn In 1914 1911 0 degrees ahead |